The 3^rd International Workshop on Flow-Induced Blood Damage in Rotating Systems (BDW2023) has been a great success.
It took place on the 24th and 25th of August 2023 in Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany.

The 3^rd International Workshop on Flow-Induced Blood Damage in Rotating Systems (BDW2023) has been a great success. It took place on the 24^th and 25^th of August 2023 in Rostock-Warnemünde, Germany.

After the first edition in 2019 and its second version in 2022, the workshop provided again a productive discussion platform for the research community working on flow-induced blood trauma. Attendance doubled from the first workshop, with participants from Australia, the United Kingdom, Romania, Sweden, Italy, China, and Germany. The participants from universities represented the fields of biology, biorheology, physics of cell damage, and flow-induced stresses on cells in rotary blood pumps, ventricular assist devices (VAD), and extracorporeal membrane oxygenators (ECMO).

Highlights of this year's workshop included presentations by Prof. Michael Simmonds from Griffith University, Australia, and Dr. Katharine Fraser from the University of Bath, UK, both of whom are well-known in their fields of research.

To emphasize the nature of the workshop, there was a discussion round on our hemolysis test case that the BDW community is currently developing.

A special feature of our two-day workshop was the focus on flow-induced blood damage. Unlike classic conferences, where this topic is often limited to one session with a small timeframe, each presentation in this workshop was designed to stimulate discussion in our research area with 20 minutes of lecture and 25 minutes of discussion.

We would like to sincerely thank ERCOFTAC for sponsoring the workshop and our SIG 37, along with its coordinator Prof. Franck Nicoud, for their tremendous support.

Coordinators: Dr. Ben Torner; Prof. Dr. Hendrik Wurm

Co-organizers: Vincenz Crone, Mario Hahne, Finn Knüppel, Candy Kleinvogel